I’m very negative toward the event in that they call it an “auto show”. That term, to me, implies more than a big dealer get together. I’ve been to the Detroit show, and the Toronto show, and THOSE are auto shows. Buffalo is nothing more than a bunch of cars taken off the lot, put indoors, and turned into playgrounds for kids. Realizing that, why on earth would you display your “show” car there, and leave it unattended. I’ve never seen your car, so I don’t know what it is, but if I put a lot of work into a car I certainly wouldn’t drop it off at that show and not make sure they followed up on the promise to rope it off.
The only worth of the Buffalo show is if you don’t know what car you want and want to look at a bunch without being pressured. Personally I’ve never purchased a car when I didn’t have my choices narrowed down to 2 or 3, at which point I’d much rather pick an area where the 3 dealers are close by and see the cars there. Just sitting in a car is never enough for me to decide since all new cars “sit” just great. I need to drive them to make my final decision, something not available at the show. The one exception was when I bought my Expedition and was considering a Durango (previous generation). I got in and in 5 seconds crossed it off my list because it felt like stepping back in time to 1985. Talk about your outdated interiors.